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Clinical trial governance covers the following topics:

  • Sponsorship
  • Contracts
  • Finance
  • Confidentiality
  • Trial insurance and professional indemnity
  • Scientific and ethical review

This section will provide guidance notes along with example and template documents. If sites or researchers have had any specific issues around trial governance then we welcome these to be submitted in order to ensure the right areas are included. It would also be helpful for site to share any templates or good examples with other researchers by submitting them here. All submissions will be acknowledged or authored as appropriate and are eligible for CPD points.